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  1. Health & Medicine

    What makes cells stop dividing and growing

    Scientists have found that the protein GATA4 helps control cellular senescence, and may be a target for treating aging-related diseases.

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  2. Paleontology

    New dinosaur identified in Alaska

    New species of duck-billed dinosaur discovered in the Alaskan permafrost.

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  3. Life

    For people, mealtime is all the time

    People eat for most of their waking hours, which may affect sleep and weight.

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  4. Neuroscience

    Separate cell types encode memory’s time, place

    Cells called ocean cells help store a memory’s “where,” while other cells called island cells help store a memory’s “when.”

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Having sex doesn’t trigger heart attacks, study suggests

    Sex doesn’t trigger heart attacks, study of patients with cardiovascular disease suggests.

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  6. Anthropology

    More than 9,000-year-old decapitated head discovered in Brazil

    Human decapitation goes back more than 9,000 years in the Americas.

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  7. Cosmology

    Complexity in the universe, hidden craters and more reader feedback

    Readers discuss order and disorder in the universe, the languages of science communication and more.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Coffee serves up surprising health benefits

    Reporting on the current state of research allows readers to see beyond the single, sometimes conflicting public health messages that medical studies produce.

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  9. Animals

    These fish would rather walk

    Slowpokes of the sea, frogfish and handfish creep along the ocean bottom.

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  10. Quantum Physics

    Quantum choice can be counterproductive

    In a puzzling paradox, delivering quantum messages becomes more difficult if the intended recipient offers the sender multiple options for the time and place of delivery.

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  11. Planetary Science

    ‘The Martian’ is entertaining science fiction rooted in fact

    With NASA’s help, filmmakers made story of astronaut stranded on Mars believable.

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  12. Anthropology

    Handed-down tales tell of ancient sea level rise

    Australian Aborigines tell tales of actual, ancient sea-level rises, a contested study finds.

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